Dolores Ibarruri (farewell to the International Brigades)

[@CountryQuestion]

Let us all remember them tonight, Long live the International Brigades! Solidarity from your sisters and brothers in Glasgow, Scotland.

[@doviejames]

wow! what a powerful reading of ibarruri's words. my old man was an ALB vet. he went back to spain in 1996 with many other international vets and it was as she foretold. the warmth and love of the spanish people rained down on them as the hot steel of franco and the falangists once had. it meant a lot to him to be remembered like that. he passed away last spring at 92. my thanks to miss peake for such a beautiful reading of those powerful words.

[@jackduffy1817]

Viva La International Brigade, They are still watching. Over and Out.

[@04steen]

Maxine Peake, you did a great job. I have heard her speech in Spanish, but this version is as beautiful as the original one.

[@robbiekoko3721]

Read beautifully, she brings alive again a magnificent part of our history. No Pasaran. Brilliant and inspiring speech and delivered perfectly.

[@garycoburn1617]

viva los internationales, No pasaran!

[@agapitojimenezestrada1018]

Gary Cobun: Cantaban no pasaran, pero en el 1939 cantaban Hemos pasado ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja. Muerte a los rojos y a los democratas.

[@herberthuncke1288]

no pasaran !!! comrades

[@carlosgarciafernandez1536]

@@agapitojimenezestrada1018 si, pero en el 45 aplastaron a los nazis y se os acabó el rollo amiguito.

[@craigyjac2]

@docfuria: I am a man who doesn't do a whole lot of emotion but that drew a couple of tears. something about the battle for Spain that drew me in a couple of years ago and I am fascinated by it now Viva la pasionaria

[@overlordje]

I HONOR THE MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE!!

[@deriter64]

My god I'm in tears. Viva Mac Paps.

[@plo173]

We won't forget them. Never.

[@overlordje]

Thank you comrade, to fight with the revolutionaries!

[@zgzelektro]

yo como español k amo la libertad, admiro a estas personas k vinieron a luchar en una guerra k no era la suya, pero sus ideas y sus convicciones les hicieron hacer un gran sacrificio x nuestro pueblo. AUNKE PERDIMOS GENTE KOMO VOSOTROS SOYS ESPERANZA. VIVA LA REPUBLICA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Trifongr]

Glory and honour to the international brigades

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Communists , Anarchists, Socialists, Trotskyist’s, Maoists, Stalinists, by whatever name you call yourselves : if you are disgusted by inequity and injustice, you are my comrade and I am proud to fight alongside you

[@rambojp73]

God bless the 15th International Brigade(Connolly Column) RIP 🙏 All Republican Dead of the Spanish Civil War 🙏 🇮🇪🍀 ¡Nae Pasaran! 🍀🇮🇪

[@metalwayalvarez]

No entiendo bien inglés y sin embargo se lo que dice. Espero aquellos hombres y mujeres le pasará igual aquel octubre de 1938 .su recuerdo sigue resonando hasta la actualidad. Gracias .

[@cogitabo]

Es un verdadero honor ver que la cultura de libertad de España se extiende más allá de las fronteras y los tiempos. Pocas veces me he sentido tan orgulloso de alguien anglosajón

[@IndioIxil]

brave soldiers who support our fight against the fascism in Spain

[@MrsRatched]

VIVA LA REPUBLICA!

[@ctbarfield]

You are correct. I thought she went to Bulgaria or some place like that. She actually went back to Spain two years after General Franco died, and returned to the Cortes!

[@meandonlyme3532]

"Some place like that" ? What does that mean ? This is insulting to the memory of Bulgarian revolutionaries and socialists !

[@GrupoIbarruriNoF]

Thanks!!! Great Job!!!

[@zaiux]

Gracias!! Eternamente

[@WelshTCC1]

Tears from my eyes

[@SocailistPoet]

The International Brigades should be re-established in order to deal with the Darfur issue, if Government do nothing then people must.

[@ganlesat]

In -answer- the anthem of the 12 International Brigade 'Garibaldi', un-recorded.... Honour to this heroes !!!!

[@txemata1]

Una guerra civil es lo peor que le puede pasar a un pais, y al terminar, España quedó destruida,empobrecida, y desquiciada.Las generaciones que la padecieron, no pudieron tener peor suerte.El gobierno de la república,salido de las urnas, fué atacado Por Franco, Hitler, y Mussolinni. Vivan los voluntarios de las brigadas. La pasionaria les hizo un apasionado homenaje en su discurso. Ella ya forma parte de la historia, y ocupa un lugar opuesto a Hitler y los fascistas. Se le debe un monumento.

[@cuketon]

That comment is better than the first one. I can see clearly, you are very intelligent person. Thanks again for your opinion.

[@trevordorgi]

I love Dolores. the people of Spain is whith you. D.E.P.-R.I.P. PEACE SOCIALIST WORL GREEN LABORIST WHIN!!!!

[@yuri26j]

NO PASARAN!!!!

[@fmcafjmca]

I know a little bit about this war but that speech is so -just so -whao!!

[@cuketon]

Oh, that's a very good answer. So clever. I love people that work for freedom of expression. Thanks for your opinion.

[@fmcafjmca]

Did you know her son died at stalingrad.Yeah,definitely living in luxury?

[@Cataduanes]

@catalystleader What witty repartee, seems I might have touched a nerve :D

[@Kickimanjaro]

I remember them today.

[@SeanRCope]

Albert Foucek Omaha Nebraska KIA April 3 1938 at the Ebro near Gandessa.

[@Frontoviki]

Adelante ! Salud ! Camerada !

[@ankhmorpok1497]

We need to look without bias at La Passionara's record. She stood for democracy and progressive social values during the Spanish civil war. However, she fled to the Stalinist USSR and served their interests. She shiujd have give West.

[@Libertyjack1]

Your mindset is in the 21st Century, not in the '30s, years before Stalin's cruelty was fully exposed to the World. Back then, he was the man who industrialized and modernized a society fresh out of feudalism, into a successful socialized society. The West would count on this man and his social experiment, to bear the brunt of the Axis war machine, losing the vast majority of the casualties during that war, and (with no disrespect to any of Allied soldiers) saving many lives for the west by forcing Hitler's hand east. Whatever dirt the 'good guys', the West had on Stalin, they waited until 1947 to push against him, and the people at the top didn't do this for the love of socialism (as is most obvious in its neglect of Spain). Why, by way in which the West ignored Franco's military regime upon the elected will of Spain, do you think it would provide refuge for Ibarurri? True, Stalin was a bastard, a cruel, incompetent social theorist and military man who ended up forcing many more sacrificed lives than were called for, while forcing his country's interference upon the Eastern peoples' of Europe and the World, and doomed a philosophy preaching for the emancipation and freedom of all people, to a legacy of murder and tyranny. However, we know that now, in the words and thoughts of those who never wanted these ideas to work in the first place . Why would she have wanted to side with them?..they didn't want her!

[@04steen]

She fled to the only country where she was safe. She lost his son in Stalingrad fighting against Nazi Germany. If she had gone to a west country she might have been killed or captured by the Gestapo (Franco's allies). She had a hard life.

[@jahermos]

Why? How? And what would she have done in the West? The US would’ve welcomed a communist?

[@alfonsopadillagalipienso4897]

Forza brigadas Internacionales.

[@JohnPatrickMonaghanvitaestamor]

Well said

[@acab1984]

NO PASARÁN

[@calvibbes]

thrilled, maybe

[@pukuotas2]

no pasaran!

[@ctbarfield]

I think he didn't kill La Passionaria because she ran away and he couldn't get her.

[@cuketon]

He didn't make the spanish military service like other spanish young men and he didn't fight in any important battle during the Spanish Civil War because he was her son. Years later, he died in Stalingrad because the sovietic army send him to the first fire line because his mother wasn't so important in the USSR. You can read about her in the Natalia Kharitonova's work.

[@Frontovik4145]

He died at Stalingrad. He was a soldier in the Red Army. I despise stupid windbags like you. Do us all a favour: never speak in public again.

[@juanjosezapaterrodriguez7124]

@@Frontovik4145 you a fascist like her... Read more about her.

[@Frontovik4145]

@@juanjosezapaterrodriguez7124 like what? That she was a miner's wife all but abandoned by her husband. That she had a series of younger lovers? That she endured great poverty before her election to el Cortez? That she was a Communist who became a Stalinist? That she was given safe refuge in the Soviet Union after fleeing la República? I'm no fascist but you are a gobshite.

[@abbu.robinson]

she is very nervous look at the page but she hides it well

[@ItaloGallese]

Most people ware not Stalinists...just ordinary people defending democracy against the defenders of privilige. yes the Stalinists were eveil but so were the fascists,...and in the middle were the mass of ordinary people.

[@number2nd]

The speech is nothing short of beautiful. However, you intentionally left out all the controversial bits - they are some of the best parts. It's a shame

[@jeanpaulsinatra]

Is that Veronica off Shameless? I never realised she was left-wing?

[@sirmarmalade]

Viva Maxine!

[@yuri26j]

yeah damm right

[@shermanfirefly5410]

No Pasaran!

[@machnochina]

hurra to the hereos of our glourious past black resistance

[@Milly563]

@PistolPete483 meetoo

[@TheZombieman87]

The Soviet Union I think.

[@sinisavacev3160]

лайк.

[@ctbarfield]

She skipped the country. Went somewhere Communist...I forget where.

[@DonCorleone1095]

if the second republic would won the war my family would not be alive, and my family only was christian, they wasn't fascist or nazis, only christian, is this a crime?

[@PaulWright-o2t]

Yes. It was a crime, to depose a fairly elected government, with help from Hitler. The Church, Franco, right wing, bastards.

[@Cataduanes]

@catalystleader I think you will find 'Viva' more appropriate...now run along Franco lover.

[@OlenkaWagner]

Yes, not all. But enough to feel relied that after all the Republic did not win. If they had won communism would have been established in Spain. I am far from gloriftying Franco, but at that time it was better that he won.

[@Frontovik4145]

So you are a fascist. Thanks for enlightening us. I'll bet all the 'Reds' Franco had slaughtered after the war thank you too.

[@OlenkaWagner]

@@Frontovik4145 - you cannot compare, because the winning side inflicted repressions against the opponents. Judging from the republican terror during the war it is reasonable to assume that if they had won the number of victims on the side of the opponents of the Republic would be bigger.

[@Frontovik4145]

Have you always been this stupid?

[@SandfordSmythe]

The Stalinist Communists did not want to "win". They fought to back up the Republicans. Stalin did not want to annoy France and others on the eve of WWII.

[@cruzadoespanol]

Gloria a Franco y a su ejercito

[@HistoryBuff75]

She was a Stalinist!

[@colinmcdonald8521]

Better a Stalinist than a fascist, or a Hayekist, or an American agent, or a neoliberal. Honour to La Pasionaria!

[@bryanholden1558]

Something to be proud of, to be a Stalinist. Glory to Stalin!

[@cuketon]

Wow, you look more intelligent in Spanish. Have you ever read a book? I recomend you: "The Spanish Civil War" by Hugh Thomas. "Pawns in the game" by William Carr. You will see how lovely was Dolores ordering to kill innocent people. Thanks for your comments, again.

[@ernesttomic3250]

La Pasionaria was a Stalinist. I have little time for her. If her side had won, Spain would have become a massive prison camp, every bit as tyrannous, or more, as the Franco dictatorship.

[@carlosgarciafernandez1536]

The Spanish Republic was a democracy with multi parties from all spheres where it was approved for the first time that women could go to vote in elections. Do not say nonsense, the only thing that history made clear is that Franco's victory with the help of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, Ford trucks and Texaco oil, brought to Spain a brutal dictatorship where there was no freedom , neither democracy, nor decency and where thousands of people were killed after the war, their stolen property, their stolen children and handed over to regime families. The Cold War is over, you should know it before saying such nonsense because until the final moment, the Republic was led by Manuel Azaña, and Manuel Azaña was not a communist. So don't say nonsense based on fascist propaganda and Cold War propaganda.

[@ernesttomic3250]

Hombre, ella era estalinista, y los estalinistas eran autoritarios y represores, y solo tienes que mirar los libros de historia para saber lo que hicieron los agentes de Stalin en España. Aqui estaban los agentes de la OGPU, detenian y ejecutaban gente de izquierdas, de entre los cuales, Andreu Nin y Camilo Berneri. Fue tambien, un agente de Stalin, el catalan Ramon Mercader, que mató a Trotsky. No soporto los fascistas, pero tampoco soporto los estalinistas.

[@cuketon]

Those are not beautiful words from a good person. Ibarruri ordered to kill thousand of spanish people and, when the Spanish Civil War was finished, she left Spain (poor and destroyed) and was hidden in Moscow living in luxury. What's about those soldiers, miners and poor spanish people?

[@Libertyjack1]

She wasn't the one to invade her own country with an army of African missionaries fighting on behalf of reactionary military generals, under Franco. Despite all of his modernity, Franco's pettiness and vengeance against his own people kept Spain one of the forest Countries in Europe throughout his life, and it took years later for this to change. Screw Franco.

[@vincemoran587]

No Passaran 🏴❤️✊🇨🇺🇿🇦🇻🇪🇻🇳🏳️‍🌈🇨🇮